MDS User View

You will need sufficient working knowledge of Draft to make use of this facility.

An additional view may be created on an existing MDS ABA drawing, called a 'User View', which is displayed on the graphical canvas of the main form in the Automatic Drawing Production application.

A User View is an additional view created by copying an existing view at the users selected location on the existing drawing. This view will be regenerated each time the MDS ABA drawing is recreated, and the drawing creation process will generally update any Draft elements, for example, Dimensions , as required. The User View is recognized by the MDS ABA application by setting the view attribute SpPurpose to USER. A User View may only be created from a valid MDS ABA view, and not from a User View.

You can modify the view as required by modifying attributes and creating or deleting view elements Manipulation and/or positioning of the Draft elements in the view may also be done.

1. Select Create > MDS User View from the ADP top menu bar.

   The prompt ‘Identify VIEW to be copied from or ESCAPE’ is displayed.

2. Identify any element in the view to be copied.

   The 'Point Construction Option Form' will be displayed, with the option '2D Cursor hit' selected as default.

   

3. Locate the center of the User View on the canvas via the 'Cross Hairs' displayed on the screen.

   An exact copy of the copied view is created at the selected location. The view can now be modified as required.